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Don't Discourage Yourself

Don’t ever discourage yourself from something because it isn’t something that you normally do.

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Don't Discourage Yourself

Being in the same little circle your whole life is playing it safe. You shouldn’t be afraid of doing something different. Adventure is scary but it is well worth every single minute of it.

I have always been one to get the same thing when going out to eat and to never do anything that I haven’t done before. Playing it safe in life it gets boring. I think everyone should step out of their bubbles at least once.

There are many upsides to being adventurous. You put yourself in the position to meet new people and to learn new things.

It doesn’t have to be something huge and life changing maybe even a new item on the menu or trying a different type of coffee. No matter what you do that is considered outside of your comfort zone will be a part of you growing as a person.

Things I have learned are: by putting myself out there the first time makes everything so much easier to do the second time and so forth. You may even discover that you are good at something and never would have thought of your self-doing. A perfect example is sports. When starting a new sport, it is scary not knowing how the outcome will be. We have all been there. How would you know if you were good until you tried? What if no one ever went outside their comfort zones? We wouldn’t be where we are today in life. No one would be a person who speaks at conferences and you wouldn’t have this article.

By me stepping out of my zone, I found myself in a play. A real theatre play. I have never done anything like that before. Scared doesn’t even begin to define how terrified I am. But, I will not give up. I have found that I have made new friends and I actually enjoy the times at rehearsals.

When I ran hurdles in high school, I wasn’t sure I could run and jump at the same time. Shoot, I can barely walk and talk at the same time. But, I fell in love and found that I was good at it. It was a sort of hidden talent.

Don’t ever discourage yourself from something because it isn’t something that you normally do.

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